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Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure AZ-800 Exam Guide

By : Steve Miles
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Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure AZ-800 Exam Guide

By: Steve Miles

Overview of this book

Written by an Azure MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer with 20 years of experience in data center infrastructure, this AZ-800 study guide is an essential preparation tool for administrators who want to take the exam and acquire key skills that will help them thrive in their careers. This book will guide you through all the ways Windows Server can be used to manage hybrid solutions on-premises and in the cloud, starting with deploying and managing Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) in on-premises and cloud environments. You’ll then dive into managing virtual machines and containers and progress to implementing and managing an on-premises and hybrid networking infrastructure. The later parts of the book focus on managing storage and file services, concluding with a detailed overview of all the knowledge needed to pass the AZ-800 exam with practical examples throughout the chapters. In the final chapter, you’ll be able to test your understanding of the topics covered with the help of practice exams to make sure that you’re completely prepared for the contents and structure of the exam. By the end of the book, you’ll have gained the knowledge, both practical and conceptual, that's required to administer Windows Server hybrid core infrastructure confidently.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Part 1: Hybrid Identity
6
Part 2: Hybrid Networking
9
Part 3: Hybrid Storage
12
Part 4: Hybrid Compute
18
Part 5: Exam Prep
19
Chapter 14: Exam Preparation Practice Tests

Introduction to virtualization and Hyper-V

In this section, we will introduce the concept of virtualization, specifically in the context of compute – that is, CPU and memory – as opposed to storage or network virtualization.

Computers (machines), whether virtual or physical, are the core building blocks of on-premise solutions and Azure IaaS solutions.

The term we use for these virtualized physical machines is virtual machine (VM). VMs are the virtualization of a computer’s physical memory and processor resources; physical computers are emulated in software. This allows a physical machine’s resources to be subdivided and have a portion allocated to each virtual machine. Each VM runs its own isolated OS, the same as a physical server. The OS accesses virtual compute resources such as virtual processors (virtual CPU or vCPU) and virtual memory.

The next section will look at the relationship between physical computers and VMs.

Comparing virtual...